HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Edwin Samuel Montagu, Bernhard Dernburg, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
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Killing fields: the first world war (from documentary people"s century) places: palestine, transjordan, iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon. King fu- d i king faysal brigadier-general r: h. dyer principle of self-determination conscripted labor. Montagu declaration (british secretary of state edwin samuel montagu) We are fighting for the liberty, the self-government, and the undictated development of all peoples, and every feature of the settlement that concludes this war must be conceived and executed for that purpose. No people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live. How much longer are valuable lives to be sacrificed in the vain endeavor to impose upon the. Arab population an elaborate and expensive administration which they never asked for and do not want? . We are spending sums in mesopotamia and in persia which may well reach. 100,000,000 pounds this year for the foolish policy of the government in the middle east.
